Beatriz Ferreyra
Beatriz Mercedes Ferreyra (21 June 1937, Córdoba, Argentina) is a composer.
Beatriz Ferreyra studied piano with Celia Bronstein in Buenos Aires (1950–1956), harmony and musical analysis with Nadia Boulanger (1962), electroacoustic music with Edgardo Canton (1963), and composition with Earle Brown and György Ligeti (1967). Between 1963 and 1970, she worked in the research department of the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), participating in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), under the leadership of Pierre Schaeffer.
She contributed to Henri Chiarucci’s and Guy Reibel’s exploratory work “Rapport entre la hauteur et la fondamentale d’un son musical,” published in March 1966 in Revue Internationale d’Audiologie (1966). While at the GRM, Ferreyra aided in the realization of recordings for Pierre Schaeffer’s Solfège de l’objet sonore (1967), also working as a teacher and giving lectures at the Conservatoire National Supérierur de Musique de Paris.
Since 1970, she has been working as a freelance composer. She worked with Bernard Baschet and his Structures Sonores in 1970, and in 1975 she became a Member of the Collège des Compositeurs created by the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB). She became interested in the field of music therapy (1973–1977) and wrote several related compositions. Ferreyra was granted a residency in electronic music by Dartmouth College to work in their new digital music studio (1976), and again in 1998 to work on film music.
She has been a member of several international music juries, including the Fourth International Competition of Experimental Music in Bourges (1976), the International Competition of Radiophonic Music Phonurgia Nova in Arles (1978), the International Competition sponsored by “Musiques et Recherches,” “Metamorphoses 2000” in Brussels (2000), and the Royal Conservatory of Mons Music 2000 in Belgium. She created the concert series “Rendez-vous de la musique concrète” at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Pierre Schaeffer (1998–1999).
Ferreyra has received commissions from several organizations, including the GRM, the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), and the Association pour la Collaboration entre les Instrumentistes et Compositeurs (ACIC). She composes music for concerts, festivals, ballets, and films.
Since 1961, Ferreyra has resided in France. (2001)
- Works
- GRM Works, 2015.
- Interviews
- Kim S. Courchene, "A Conversation with Beatriz Ferreyra", Computer Music Journal 25:3, Fall 2001, pp 14-21. (English)
- Mathilde Dubesset, Florence Rochefort, "Beatriz Ferreyra, compositrice de musique acousmatique", Femmes, Genre, Histoire 25, 2007. (French)
- Links
- Biography (French)
- Ferreyra at ZKM
- Wikipedia
